Serious unclassified road crash in Gateshead NE9 on 1 May 2007 at 15:15 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gateshead at 15:15 on Tuesday 1 May 2007. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 May 2007
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.93291, longitude -1.58592, in the NE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gateshead. It is one of the crashes that make up the High Fell, Gateshead, NE9 5RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gateshead
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007100300607
- Council area
- Gateshead
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 1 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198710D120287
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 30 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199910J151299
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 12 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199310D119393
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Gateshead, 18 July 2008
10 m awayRef 2008100488408
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 11 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199610J071396
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B1296 in Gateshead, 13 October 1997
20 m awayRef 199710J056297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2007100300607 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gateshead road accident statistics for 2007.